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LLM pretraining: data, stages, compute budget

Pretraining LLMs: data, objectives and compute budget

When you talk to Claude or GPT-4, you are interacting with a model that went through two distinct phases. The first — and by far the most expensive — is pretraining: exposing the model to trillions of tokens of text and teaching it one simple task. The second phase (alignment, covered in the next lesson) turns that raw capability into a helpful assistant.

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